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University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1983
Entertainment
Athletic vigor combined with ballet in Tharp dances
By LAUREN PETERSON
By LAUREN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
An exciting mixture of movement and emotion emerged Friday night from the Twyla Tharp Dancers, a New York-based modern dance company.
The Hoch Auditorium stage was graced by four dances, performed by different members of the traveling company of 10. The dances displayed Tharp's choreographic deviation from ballet steps to an extremely athletic pattern of movement.
"When we work with Twyla on a new piece she asks of us all what we can do physically. She wants us to use as much force as we possibly can," said John Carrafa, a four-year member of the company.
He said Tharp had started last year to use a more athletic format in her choreography.
The first dance, "Assorted Quartets," was a lively performance involving two female and two male dancers, set to traditional fiddle music.
to traditional house music.
Ballet overtones were evident throughout the dance, but dancers ran and jumped to make the performance exhausting yet sensational to view.
ycf sensitii, who broke his toe at the Tharp studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., while practicing a solo that he was supposed to perform in Hoch Friday, said Tharp choreographed at least two or three new pieces a year.
She choreographed "Short Stories," the second performance of the evening, in 1980, he said.
The music to the dance, Bruce Springsteen's "Jungland," created an emotional atmosphere telling the story of two
conduitary harmony toward the end of the dance. Their movements were duet toward the end of the dance. Their movements were
synchronized and created the mission of the day. The third dance, "The Fugue," is one of the oldest dances in
"It's Twyla's encyclopedia," he said. "It uses all we have." The last dance, "Jelly Rolls," though a bit long, was humorous with a touch of slapstick.
the Tharp repertoire, Carrafa said. He said Tharp choreographed the dance in 1970 and it was originally performed by three women.
One dancer created a humorous caricature of a drunk by reeling and falling on the stage. The music, by Jelly Roll Morton, gave the performance a lively tone.
Carrafa said the company's members ranged in age from 21 to 38.
"It is an older company because it requires a certain maturity rarely formed in young dancers," he said.
many rarely formed of youngest in Brooklyn, they took ballet classes every morning and practiced from noon until 6 p.m. every day.
Tharp and her dancers are starting a school to train potential dancers, he said, which will be located at the Brooklyn Academy.
Brooklyn Academy.
Roddy 0'Connor, the company manager for seven years,
said only 10 of the 16 members performed on the road at a
time. The group travels about one-third of the year, he said.
Also, he said the tours were limited to three weeks to keep the dancers from getting too tired or too lonely.
I marp stopped performing regularly with the company four years ago, O'Connor said. Now she works in New York with the dancers who are not traveling and is compiling an authology videotape of her career from 1965 to the present.
She is also co-producing "The Catherine Wheel" with the British Broadcast Company, a production that appeared on
The company will perform Friday and Saturday at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, Mo., O'Connor said. The group will travel to Japan at the end of February for a month-long tour.
"Working with Twiya is very challenging and gratifying," Carrifa said. "Her authority is unchallenged."
Three dancers from the New York-based Twyla Dance Company practiced "The Fugue," one of the company's old dance forms, in preparation for their performance Friday in Hoch Auditorium. The舞戏 was not performed to music. The group will perform Friday and Saturday at the Lyric Theatre in Kansas City, Mo., and will travel to Japan at the end of February for a month-long tour.
Bales of hay, jagged metal scraps inspire artist
By LADONNA LONGSTREET
Staff Reporter
Inspired by the spacing of large round hay bales and a visit to a barn in which there were jagged scraps of metal roofing, a local artist has created a new art form.
While arranging her display "Lines and Spaces Paperworks" Friday, Shellie Bender, education coordinator for the Lawrence Arts Center, explained how she has developed an art form organizing textures and colors to fill space.
Some of the multi-colored, striped paper and fiber hangings already decorated the walls of the gallery, while more lay in a precise row on the floor.
The exhibit of sculpted paper will be shown from now until Feb. 23 in the center at Ninth and Vermont streets. Anne Evans, director of the center, said she did not know of anyone else in town who was involved in a similar kind of art.
Bender said her pieces were molded on sheets of used, bent metal. Pieces in her first exhibit a year and a half ago, "Meditation Space," were molded on corrugated barn roof, with subtle variations in shape, size and color.
She said that in the current display, straight lines and sharply defined planes were added to the repetition of form as a counterpoint to the soft ragged edges of the molded paper.
"The same basic shape had been held throughout," Bender said, "yet each one is a little different. There's a thread that follows throughout. The rest is an evolution."
The theme unit of the series comprises structures built on the same section of metal, but each one subly differs from the others.
After choosing a section of metal to mold, Bender said she sprayed the metal with enamel to seal the pores. Then she coats the area with a non-stick substance to prevent the paper pip from adhering to the metal.
One piece is formed on the concave side of the metal while another is on the convex side, she said. Some of the curves shadow faults while others hint or accent intentional holes and tears in the design.
Bender's materials are acrylate and paper or cotton fiber pulp. She said she preferred the fiber because of its rough texture compared with the shiny surface of the paper.
for the fiber pieces, she builds a thin shell of paper and covers it with fiber. The fiber absorbs several coatings of paint before she paints narrow stripes between strips of tape.
In this display, her first experiment with color, the color schemes of blue, green, pink, purple and gray as well as the form contribute to each piece's individuality. Bender said.
Separately built appendages are also glued to the different designs, she said.
Hender said one piece could require a few days or weeks to complete.
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CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will have a Bible
A TRAFFIC SAFETY PRESENTATION by the Air Force ROTC will be at 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. in 411 Summerfield Hall
THE BIBLICAL SEMINAR will meet at 4:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242
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CAMPUS CRUSADES FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
KC SQUETT OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS will have a speaker at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will have a Bible study at 7:30 p.m. in the Union.
A BENEFIT RECITAL for Hilltop Child Care Center will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
"PHILLEMON," a play by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, will be at 8 p.m. in the Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall.
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